Thread: Partitions on external hard drive.
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Old 07-03-2009, 10:36 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jryan1776 View Post
I am not sure how many partitions and what sizes to setup on my 650Gb external. For now I have setup 540Gb for the Wii format, but am not sure what to do with the rest.

Should I have 3 drives, WBFS, FAT (or FAT32?), NTFS. What sizes should the FAT and/or NTFS partitions be? Is there a size restriction on how big the FAT partition can be?

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One of the easiest ways if you use GX loader is let the program do it for you. That way you don't have to worry. Otherwise you could use wbfs manager 3.0 or similar.
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